# Privacy Policy · Asharaf Ali

> Data protection commitments, zero-telemetry policy, and transparent AI agent discovery standards for asharafali.com.

## Core Commitment to Data Minimization
This website (asharafali.com) is a personal professional portfolio and technical publication. It is governed by a strict principle of data minimization: we do not monetize user data, we do not serve advertisements, we do not set third-party marketing cookies, and we do not employ invasive behavioral tracking scripts.

## Information Collection & Infrastructure Logs
- **No Third-Party Analytics:** We do not run Google Analytics, Meta Pixels, heatmaps, or third-party fingerprinting trackers on any page.
- **Ephemeral Edge Logs:** Requests to this domain are processed through our hosting infrastructure and content delivery network (Netlify Edge / Cloudflare). Standard HTTP request metadata (such as IP address, HTTP headers, requested path, and timestamp) may be processed ephemerally solely for DDoS defense, rate limiting, and network reliability. These logs are automatically rotated and purged in accordance with standard infrastructure security retention policies.
- **Direct Email Correspondence:** When you contact us at hello@asharafali.com, your email address, message body, and attachments are retained exclusively to conduct professional correspondence. They are never sold, rented, or transferred to third-party marketing brokers.

## AI Agents, Crawlers, and Machine-Readable Standards
We actively welcome AI agents, search indexing bots, and LLM crawlers to access our machine-readable discovery interfaces. We publish structured discovery documents to facilitate transparent, polite crawling:
- **Machine Summary:** https://www.asharafali.com/llms.txt
- **Agent Instructions:** https://www.asharafali.com/agent-instructions.md
- **XML Sitemap:** https://www.asharafali.com/sitemap.xml
- **RSS Feed:** https://www.asharafali.com/feed.xml

Crawlers and autonomous agents are expected to respect robots.txt rate guidelines and preserve canonical entity attribution when citing or summarizing content from this website.

## Applicable Laws & Data Subject Rights
In alignment with UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on Personal Data Protection (PDPL) and international data protection standards, you have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal communications submitted to us. To exercise any data rights or submit inquiries regarding data governance, please reach out directly to privacy@asharafali.com or hello@asharafali.com.

*Last updated: September 2026.*